It's been decreasing rapidly. My peak was a million words/month (mostly fiction) about 6 years ago. Lately, a lot of consumption has been in video, because, fo

It's been decreasing rapidly. My peak was a million words/month (mostly fiction) about 6 years ago. Lately, a lot of consumption has been in video, because, for some reason people like to teach with videos instead of text. Also I realized that my eyes were 'glitching' -- when wearing glasses past a certain power level, words start to flicker on screens, especially short distance ones. So I got reading glasses and things are better now. Be warned that you can read a lot faster if you skip comprehension; reading a mentally challenging book means that the bottleneck is how fast your brain can process the information. AI has been good at "predigesting" info i.e. doing summaries before the actual reading. Some books are extremely difficult to get through without the context. Just an hour ago, I was reading Joyce Carol Oates' Heat (a poem-story), which seemed difficult because it was unfamiliar. Then it clicked when I saw that every paragraph only contained one point of information and the narration was distorted on purpose to evoke unclear memories, but it was still chronological. After that, reading was a breeze. Other things are hard to read because of some fear of getting better after you read it; some form of regret at not doing this earlier. I still haven't completed reading The Pragmatic Programmer, despite starting it almost 10 years ago. Anyway, to answer the question, probably 4 books/year in the last 2 years. I've been forcing myself to try to focus on a book until it's finished and it's proven very inefficient.